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So far this year, 12 states have approved plans to restrict Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits.
Waivers have already been approved in a dozen states ban unhealthy foods from being bought using SNAP benefits.
Columnist Pat Beall writes that recent exhortations from some Republicans to Make America Healthy Again seem a touch ...
Starting Jan. 1, Florida’s SNAP recipients can no longer use their food stamp benefits to buy soda, energy drinks, candy, and ...
The health and human services secretary wants to limit access to items he has called “poison.” But this mission is more ...
Six more states received waivers this week from the Trump administration to ban soda and candy purchases from public food ...
Six more states have banned junk food purchases from being bought with Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) ...
There is now a bipartisan movement to ban SNAP benefits from being used to purchase junk food. Congress should make the ban permanent.
Texas takes "junk food" off the SNAP eligibility list as part of the Trump administration's push to "Make America Healthy ...
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt asked the federal government to carve out a ban on certain food bought with SNAP benefits.
Governor Lee’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on how quickly the new rules would take effect if ...
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster's office says they plan to join a growing number of states preventing SNAP benefits from ...